Carly & Jared Jakins
(USA)
Jared & Carly Jakins are a documentary filmmaking team and curatorial collaborators for Film Feast at Granary Arts in Central Utah. They have directed and produced several award-winning short films and have worked on multiple feature-length documentaries together. Their feature debut, Scenes From the Glittering World, was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens (2022). Jared is also a commercial director and cinematographer. They believe cinema has the capacity to formally transcend the sum of its parts. They are interested in stories of cultural and historical intersections, divisions, and re-discoveries near their home in the rural American West and beyond.
American Seams
American Seams explores identity among rural women in the American West. This and other salient themes are probed through a series of intimate but witty conversations and portraiture with 3-4 quilters in a short documentary film. We converse with rural matriarchs who practice a traditionally feminist artistic expression. Much like a quilt is made from various fabrics being stitched together, our characters will each share their unique lifestyle, showing some of the contrast of the American West. Quilts are a reflection of the maker’s belief system and life experience. We hope to cast a light into the multifaceted complexity of identity, womanhood, and politics in rural spaces.
Many of the most enduring and significant images produced of women living and working in the American West were crafted using medium format and larger film negatives. Capturing this short film with a medium-format camera is an intriguing opportunity to engage in a contemporary interpretation of a historic process.
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